Aïssa Maïga
Birthday: 1975-05-25
Place of Birth: Dakar, Senegal
Biography: Aïssa Maïga is a Senegal-born French actress, director, writer, producer, and activist. Maïga has worked with major auteurs like Michael Haneke, Abderrahmane Sissako and Michel Gondry, and recently starred in Chiwetel Ejiofor’s directorial debut.
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Caché
George, host of a television show focusing on literature, receives videos shot on the sly that featu...
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Don't Worry, I'm Fine
A 19-year-old searches for her twin brother after he runs away from home, following a fight with the...
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Paris Je T'aime
Olivier Assayas, Gus Van Sant, Wes Craven and Alfonso Cuaron are among the 20 distinguished director...
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Russian Dolls
Five years after their summer together in Barcelona, Xavier, William, Wendy, Martine and Isabelle re...
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Diamond 13
A cop goes up against his lifelong friend, who has become one of the city's biggest drug traffickers...
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Crossfire
A grizzled Parisian detective is sent to an outpost town in Southern France to dismantle a gang of k...
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Neuf meufs - Le film
Nine slices of life, taken from the daily lives of nine women living in the same Parisian building, ...
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The Age of Man
Samuel is 30. Formerly a confirmed bachelor, he has been living with Tina – a photographer – for the...
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L'Aide Au Retour
Sofija and Miroslav are two immigrants who live in France without papers with their two sons. To avo...
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My Children Are Different
A classical musician demands that his beautiful daughter and his young son follow in his footsteps d...
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Don't Worry, Be Happy
With his vitriolic pen, Désiré Loncle, does not make the life of filmmakers easy. But chickens come ...
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Together Is Too Much
Imagine, if you will, a somewhat contented married woman finding out her husband's infidelity during...
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Black and White
Racial integration is Elena's profession and passion, not only filling her working day as a cultural...
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The Counsel
A new lawyer, looking to establish himself, wins a difficult case and deals with the unforeseen cons...
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One Stays, the Other Leaves
A story about two couples, longtime friends in which both husbands engage in long-term affairs and, ...
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The Man Who Saved Paris
The most successful brothel owner in Paris during the 1940s is asked by the government to restore th...
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Today
Satché is about to die. He decides to make his last day on this world the day of his life....
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I Do
Life is easy for 43-year-old Luis, a happy single guy, fulfilled in his job of star nose with a perf...
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Big Kids
Yannick is a caregiver in a retirement home. Between permanent pressure and budget restrictions, he ...
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Mood Indigo
A woman suffers from an unusual illness caused by a flower growing in her lungs....
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Jonas and Lila, Til Tomorrow
It’s December 1999, and 25-year-old Jonah has just graduated from film school. As the new millennium...
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Aya of Yop City
While Aya has dreams of becoming a doctor, her two best friends, Adjoua and Bintou, just like to han...
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Anything for Alice
Slacker Max fell so hard for single mother Alice in college that he developed a website aimed at win...
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Maria Schneider, 1983
In 1983, French actress Maria Schneider gives an interview for the TV show Cinéma Cinémas. The conve...
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Toussaint Louverture
Toussaint opposes the Spanish army and joins the French troops. On Saint-Domingue he succeeds to pus...
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Deadly Summer
A woman's plans to leave her husband and follow her lover abroad are thrown into turmoil when murder...
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Le Marchand de sable
Marked by years of prison, Djo, a parcel delivery man in the Paris suburbs, lives modestly with his ...
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The Black Pharaoh, the Savage and the Princess
Three tales, three ages, three worlds. At the time of Ancient Egypt, a young king becomes the first ...
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Neneh Superstar
Born to dance, Neneh is a 12-year-old black girl who dreams of entering the Paris Opera Ballet Schoo...
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Pas de toit sans moi
She is a black illegal immigrant, he's white and unemployed - Both of them are racists and they hate...
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Marie-Line
A woman learns to care for others when she's forced to help people on the wrong side of the law in t...
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One Man's Show
On the eve of his fiftieth birthday, an actor discovers that he's got stomach cancer. He must now fa...
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Lise and Andre
Lise is a Parisian prostitute who has a young son, Sebastien. Lise dotes on her boy, who has a gift ...
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Sex, Okra & Salted Butter
An extramarital affair leads to Hortense’s separation from her very traditional African husband, who...
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Bamako
Caught in the stranglehold of debt and structural adjustment, Africa is fighting for its survival. I...
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Journey to Ouaga
Lionel, a young Frenchman, who has just arrived in Cotonou, Benin, loses his car, airplane ticket an...
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The African Doctor
1975. When Seyolo Zantoko, a doctor from the Congo who has managed, along with his family, to flee t...
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He Even Has Your Eyes
Paul is married to Sali. Everything would be fine if they could get a child. Until the day when Sali...
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Code Unknown
A series of events unfold like a chain reaction, all stemming from a minor event that brings the fil...
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Lucy's Revenge
After Polish-born writer-director Janusz Mrozowski, a French resident for the past 30 years, made a ...
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Corniche Kennedy
Corniche Kennedy. In the blue of the Mediterranean, at the foot of luxurious villas, the young kids ...
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Love Is Dead
Mathias Lonisse, founder of the company Love is Dead, is a breakup specialist. He is hired to break ...
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The Eiffel Tower Mystery
The daughter of one of the architects who built the Eiffel Tower gets framed for a murder that has t...
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HOUBA! On the Trail of the Marsupilami
When reporter Dan Geraldo (Alain Chabat) arrives in Palombia to hunt for a scoop, he never suspects ...
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The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
Against all the odds, a thirteen year old boy in Malawi invents an unconventional way to save his fa...
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Brother
Because he wanted to protect his little brother, Teddy, a young man without a history, is accused of...
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Une famille parfaite
Martha is 30 years old in 2031. She spent a happy childhood in a family not quite like the others si...
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The Bathers
Sexy, gritty and as provocative as a lap dance, The Bathers takes an insider's look at the lives of ...
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Où sont les noirs ?
French actors Lucien Jean-Baptiste, Aïssa Maïga, Sonia Rolland, Deborah Lukumuena, Marie-France Malo...
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The Tower
Eleven-year-old Wardi’s great-grandfather leaves behind a will suggesting looking to the past to fin...
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Above the Sky
After losing the use of her legs in an plane crash at 18, Dorine earns her pilot's license and dedic...
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Pop féminisme : des militantes aux icônes pop
An overview of 21st-century feminism through the lens of pop culture....
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Par accident
Isabelle Blanc, a 30 years old biologist who works at the university, awakes in an hospital and does...
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The Listening Tapes
In three reenactments of a controversial 1983 television interview, actors Manal Issa, Aïssa Maïga, ...
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Promised Sky
Marie, Naney, and Jolie live together in Tunis, sheltering Kenza, a shipwreck survivor. As this unor...
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Killing of a Nation
Anderson Toussaint, an American lobbyist in Haiti, gains access to President Moïse's inner circle an...
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Nine Women
Nine funny, touching and realistic short films, capturing snapshots from a day in the lives of nine ...
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